Valorie Zimmerman: Science, facts, values and morality
Just finished a very good book, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris. It is quite meaty, as Harris is a neuroscientist, but this book is not about the brain, but...
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Randall Ross: Remembering Aaron and Meeting Personal Heroes
I didn't know Aaron personally. I'm probably similar to you in that regard. Sure, I was peripherally aware of his work and achievements in spreading freedom the way he knew best. But he really didn't...
View ArticleBenjamin Kerensa: Happy 10th Birthday Firefox!
Today is an important day because today we celebrate a decade of Firefox. Yep, that’s right. Firefox 1.0 was released 10 years ago today. I can’t imagine what the Internet would be like today if...
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Kubuntu Wire: Kubuntu Polo Shirts are Shipping
The first batch of the new Kubuntu polo shirts are shipping. They are being supplied by our friends at the Hungarian Ubuntu Loco Team and HelloTux shop. Here they are modelled by our good looking...
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The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 391
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #391 for the week November 3 – 9, 2014, and the full version is available here.In this issue we cover:Joining the Ubuntu Online SummitUbuntu...
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Randall Ross: Juju is... Music!
Many of you who follow my blog have heard me say "Ubuntu is not just software."Well, by extension, neither is Juju. Juju is part of Ubuntu and like its parent, it's more than bits and bytes.Today I...
View ArticleStuart Langridge: Esquire is nothing new
You know how the higher-end men’s magazines — Esquire, GQ, that sort of thing — have feature articles where they reveal the inner secrets of the mob or what it’s like to be a black market gun dealer or...
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Svetlana Belkin: Why is my Workflow the Way it is?
As I said in my last post, I’m trying to find a program that suits my workflow in terms of being organized. In this quote:My plan on how to use Zim [Wiki] is as followed:I will use notebooks to keep...
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Joel Leclerc: Estsaver – A fast, flexible, and beautiful screen saver and locker
AboutEstsaver is a new OpenGL-based screen saver and locking framework, designed to be fast, lightweight, and fully extensible. Like most other frameworks, you can customize the screensaver as you...
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Leo Iannacone: Goopg – GPG for Gmail in Chrome and Chromium
During the last few weeks I have been working on Goopg, a new extension for the Chrome and Chromium browser which allows one to sign and verify emails directly from the Gmail web page.It consists...
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Ubuntu GNOME: Defend GNOME Campaign
Hello Ubuntu GNOME Community,Sad but true. Everyone I suppose is shocked. I have seen this today on Facebook – Help the GNOME Foundation defend the GNOME trademark against Groupon!– and I still can’t...
View ArticleMichael Hall: My Scopes Showdown Wishlist
A couple of weeks ago we announced the start of a contest to write new Unity Scopes. These are the Dash plugins that let you search for different kinds of content from different sources. Last week Alan...
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Daniel Holbach: Ubuntu Online Summit: 12-14 November
Yet another Ubuntu Online Summit (UOS) is ahead of us. It’s going to happen from 12-14 November. Participation is open to everyone, so to attend simply:Register your attendance.Visit the schedule and...
View ArticleUbuntu App Developer Blog: New developer guide: Online Accounts
More content coming up for app and scope developers targeting Ubuntu on devices: this time around Online Accounts!Learn the concepts on how to write account providers for online services using the...
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Mattia Migliorini: Install Telegram for Linux as an application
Telegram is a cloud-based messaging app that focus on security and speed. Its primary competitor is WhatsApp, which cares more about money than users’ privacy. Telegram is free, open source, and cares...
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Svetlana Belkin: Don’t Buy Edimax EW-7811Un 150M 11n Wi-Fi USB Adapter For Linux
The speeds are horrible with this when you are at a distance from the router; like 20 feet away. Here is proof:Please note, my laptop was only able to connect to a G network and nothing else.Before...
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Randall Ross: Visualizing "Clouds" More Crisply: No More Gobbledygook
Before I start, let's recap two words that you may have heard recently if you've been around Ubuntu people. I promise this will be the only jargon in this article.Juju - a tool that makes it easy to...
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David Planella: The Ubuntu Scope Showdown – progress showcase
Over a week ago, we announced the Ubuntu Scope Showdown: a competition to write a scope for Ubuntu on phones in 5 weeks and win exciting prizes.Scopes are Ubuntu’s innovative take at revolutionizing...
View ArticleStuart Langridge: What If
I had this thought. Everyone1 wears these fitness wristband things2 now. In the Dresden Files books, Harry Dresden the wizard has a set of magical finger rings which store a little bit of kinetic...
View ArticleRonnie Tucker: Ubuntu Online Summit for Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet)
The Ubuntu Online Summit is an event that allows the Ubuntu community to contribute to the development of the operating system by taking part in discussions with the developers. It features a lot of...
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